What kind of Australia will we wake up to if the Voice referendum is defeated on October 14?
- Written by Paul Strangio, Emeritus professor of politics, Monash University
It was Robert Menzies, father of the modern Liberal Party, who famously remarked: “to get an affirmative vote from the Australian people on a referendum proposal is the labour of Hercules”.
Menzies knew this from bitter experience. The politician with the electoral Midas touch was the sponsor of three unsuccessful referendums. Most...
